Gyeoung-ju

Last weekend was Adam and my last weekend in Korea. We decided to go to Gyeoung-ju, which is the historical capital of Korea. They say it is to Korea, what Kyoto is to Japan. The city is really neat. There were big mounds (well small hills actually) that were tombs of royality that used to rule the area. We stayed at a really neat hostel, and on the friday night we went to a place called Boman Lake that was a small resort like village. There we watched an open air Korean Performance that was really neat. On the saturday we decided to rent bikes for the day, and bike to a temple and to a huge Buddha. This was slightly a mistake as it was sunny and about 40 degrees out. We pushed sweatyness to a different level. We arrived at the temple (that was 18km away) so sweaty that we had to wait an hour to dry off before going in. The temple was neat. We then took a bus from the temple up the mountain to a place called the Grotto. This is a place where there is the biggest Buddha in Korea carved into the side of a mountain. It was SO big and SO neat to see however you cannot take pictures of it. After we dreaded the 18km bike ride back, however it wasn't too bad. The picture above is of the area where the Grotto is.

We went to another Korean concert that evening and then it was back to Seoul for one night, where we caught our flight to Singapore. The trip back to Seoul was awesome as we took a Bullet train that went 300km an hour!!!